by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Well, that escalated quickly. The latest is that Russia has suggested that it may position some of its tactical nukes on the border with Ukraine. That’s just bonkers. Even suggesting shit like that is very, very dangerous.
But I do love a good scenario, so let’s run that nightmare. If Russia were to use tactical nukes as part of the opening stages of a “shock and awe” campaign against Ukraine then wow we wow wow. That would break the 70 year old taboo against using nukes in a big way and suddenly every nation in the world would begin to recalibrate their geopolitical views on the use of WMD.
It would be a horrific nightmare for more than one reason. But, I guess the use of tactical nukes against Ukraine in the opening stages of a general war would be one way to take over the entire country pretty quickly. But, let me note AGAIN, that Ukraine has a long, long history of people going after Russians on a personal level.
So, even if Russia nuked Ukraine because Putin finally lost his fucking mind, that would not stop Russia from ultimately being destroyed by doing so. The same dynamic as Afghanistan would exist. Even if Ukraine was zapped into rubble in the opening stages of a general war, millions of Ukrainians would take up arms and make life absolute hell for Russian troops in their country.
It would be only a matter of time before Russians lost not just Ukraine, but Russia itself through some sort of civil war or revolution.
I continue to not know what the the fuck Putin is up to at the moment. All this moving of troops to the Ukrainian border just doesn’t make any sense whatsoever.
